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Vehicle 59266

Class 120

BR Diagram 561

Builder: BR Swindon Works
Layout: Cross Country
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: BR Standard
Lot Number: 30336
Diagram: 561

Allocations

4w/e 22/03/58 New to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
06/12/59 Transferred to 81D (Reading)
13/12/59 Transferred to 86C (Cardiff Canton)
Jan-61Depot code change88A
Sep-63Depot code change86A
06/05/73Depot code changeCF
w/e 22/10/77 Transferred to CH (Chester)
22/11/82 Withdrawn from CH (Chester)

Notes

29th January 1958 - New at Swindon Carriage Works.

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50729 59266 50660 Noted circa Feb-68 - in blue grey with full yellow ends
CTN516 50729 59266 50660 Listed at 86A - May-70
CTN516 50729 59266 50660 Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71
50729 59266 50660 Noted 20/03/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: (50660 - 59266 - 50729) - 550231
50729 59266 50660 Noted 05/04/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiif line in formation: 55026 - 50729 - 59266 - 506601
50729 59266 50660 Noted 01/05/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: 55026 - (50660 - 59266 - 50729)1
50729 59266 50660 Noted 24/06/1971 - Seen on Crewe - Cardiff line in formation: 55022 - (50729 - 59266 - 50660)1
50729 59266 50660 Noted 20/08/1971 - at Abergavenny2
50729 59266 50660 Noted 21/08/1971 - at Newport2
50729 59266 50660 Noted 25/08/1971 - at Cardiff2
50729 59266 50660 Noted 26/08/1971 - at Newport2
50729 59266 50660 Noted 18/09/1971 - at Crewe2
50729 59266 50660 Noted 08/01/1972 - at Crewe3
50729 59266 50660 Noted 26/05/1973 - at Crewe3
50729 59266 50660 Noted 30/06/1973 - at Newport2
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 03/09/73 - at Shrewsbury4
50729 59266 50660 Noted 09/02/1974 - Swansea to Cardiff service.5
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 27/04/74 - on 06:52 Weston SM-Cardiff
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 25/05/74 - on 2V67 0603 Crewe-Cardiff
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 13/08/74 - on 2M67 0750 Cardiff-Crewe with 55025 + C502 + C530
50729 59266 50660 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Cardiff2
50729 59266 50660 Noted 29/08/1974 - at Crewe3
L262 51825 59712 59266 51848 Noted 29/08/74 - at York, set number on solebars of 59712 + 518484
50729 59266 50660 Noted 02/09/74 - in Bristol Temple Meads4
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 07/09/74 - on 2V67 1600 Crewe-Cardiff with 55026 + P556
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 12/09/74 - on 2C06 0650 Chepstow-Milford Haven with B560
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 26/08/75 - at Newport4
50729 59266 50660 Noted 26/08/75 - On Cardiff Canton depot4
C516 50729 59266 50660 Noted 28/08/75 - at Crewe4
C505 50729 59266 50660 Listed at CF - 01/05/1976
50729 59266 50660 Noted 04/09/76 - at Bristol6
C505 50729 59266 50660 Noted 04/09/76 - in Cardiff Central4
C505 50729 59266 50660 Noted 22/05/1977 - Cardiff area5
50729 59266 50660 Noted 19/02/1978 - Chester5
50729 59266 50660 Noted 02/09/1978 - North Wales5
50729 59266 50660 Noted 11/02/1979 - Chester5
50729 59266 50660 Noted 17/03/1979 - Swindon Works. Outshopped after C3 Overhaul 4/795
50729 59266 50660 Noted 17/02/1980 - on Chester depot 5
50729 59266 50660 Noted 22/10/1980 - Working 0833 Shrewsbury to Wolverhampton7
50729 59266 50660 Noted 06/06/1981 - in Swindon Works 5
50729 59266 50660 Noted circa 05/19821

Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Martin Lumley
6: Leonard Rogers
7: Shayne Lewis

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 13th September 1975

Set number: C516

W50660 is leading 59266 and 50729 on a Cardiff to Crewe service as it enters Newport station on 13 September 1975. Jeremy Chapter.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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